Second "Design Recharge" Interview: April 1, 2015In this second interview with Diane Gibbs at "Design Recharge" we focus on International Fake Journal Month. If you're wondering just what that is, I give a great description of it, and why you might want to participate. Also check out our earlier interview (below on this list) if you want more information about how I approach visual journaling.

First "Design Recharge" Interview: February 12, 2015Diane Gibbs of Design Recharge interviewed me for International Fake Journal Month (2015). We get a little side tracked and talk a lot about sketching, visual journaling, and my creative process. It's a great interview.

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Podcasts with Roz

Danny Gregory and I Discuss Visual JournalingSadly a two part podcast from May 2008 made with Danny Gregory, author of "An Illustrated Life," is not currently available. We talked about journaling, art media, and materials…If this becomes available again in the future I will let you know.

Finding Bits of TimeRicë Freeman-Zachery, author of "Creative Time and Space," talks to me about finding time to be creative. (Taped October 23, 2009.)

There are some other sections on the site where they have training information. I haven't looked into any of that, but you might want to poke around and see if any of it is helpful. (That reading time however DOES NOT COUNT as DRAWING TIME!)

What I found today when I got ready to write this post is that they also have the same set up for animal drawing. In the "mammals" sample I just ran through there were horses (lots of horses), zoo animals, dogs, cats, lots of horses, you get the idea. There are sleeping animals and frolicking animals, all great for practice.

So Project Friday this week is simple. Get to Pixelovely and start sketching. Set up a class mode (which will tell you how many poses and how long each will be, to give you some sense of timing) and get sketching. Have some bond paper on hand if you think you'll be "wasting" your expensive art paper in your journal.

(Personally I don't hold with that definition of waste, but I would rather not argue with you I just want to get you sketching, so a stack of bond paper it is.)

Make a commitment to set up two sessions today, perhaps 30 minutes before dinner and 60 minutes before bed? If you extend Project Friday throughout the weekend (and I think it would be a grand idea for you to do just that) then I suggest you set aside 30 minutes in the morning, an hour in the afternoon, and an hour in the evening on each weekend day. That would be a total of 8 sessions from Friday to Sunday night. A mini-art camp while you got all your tasks from life done as well.

If you manage to do even a little bit of that then take a moment to donate to the creator as a thank you for creating such a great tool. (There's a donation link at the side of Pixelovely's page.)

There are some other sections on the site where they have training information. I haven't looked into any of that, but you might want to poke around and see if any of it is helpful. (That reading time however DOES NOT COUNT as DRAWING TIME!)

What I found today when I got ready to write this post is that they also have the same set up for animal drawing. In the "mammals" sample I just ran through there were horses (lots of horses), zoo animals, dogs, cats, lots of horses, you get the idea. There are sleeping animals and frolicking animals, all great for practice.

So Project Friday this week is simple. Get to Pixelovely and start sketching. Set up a class mode (which will tell you how many poses and how long each will be, to give you some sense of timing) and get sketching. Have some bond paper on hand if you think you'll be "wasting" your expensive art paper in your journal.

(Personally I don't hold with that definition of waste, but I would rather not argue with you I just want to get you sketching, so a stack of bond paper it is.)

Make a commitment to set up two sessions today, perhaps 30 minutes before dinner and 60 minutes before bed? If you extend Project Friday throughout the weekend (and I think it would be a grand idea for you to do just that) then I suggest you set aside 30 minutes in the morning, an hour in the afternoon, and an hour in the evening on each weekend day. That would be a total of 8 sessions from Friday to Sunday night. A mini-art camp while you got all your tasks from life done as well.

If you manage to do even a little bit of that then take a moment to donate to the creator as a thank you for creating such a great tool. (There's a donation link at the side of Pixelovely's page.)